Don Blasingame, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDon Blasingame
American baseball player
Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1932
Place of Birth: Corinth, Mississippi, United States
Date of Death: 13-Apr-2005
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Don Blasingame
- Donald Lee Blasingame (March 16, 1932 – April 13, 2005) was an American professional baseball second baseman.
- He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St.
- Louis Cardinals (1955–1959), San Francisco Giants (1960–1961), Cincinnati Reds (1961–1963), Washington Senators (1963–1966), and Kansas City Athletics (1966).
- Blasingame threw right-handed, batted left-handed and was listed as 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and 160 pounds (73 kg). He grew up in Corinth, Mississippi and attended Corinth High School.
- He served in the U.S.
- military in 1951 and 1952 and signed with the Cardinals in 1953.Nicknamed "Blazer", Blasingame was a second baseman with five MLB teams in 12 seasons, and later he was the third American (after Wally Yonamine and Joe Lutz) to manage in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
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